Dr. Swanlund on Regent! I've been going to him since I was six years old and he's awesome and does GREAT work. Had my first root canal earlier this year and I started crying in the chair due to anxiety and the dental assistant was wonderful and had me laughing probably a minute later. Had zero pain during or after the procedure, too! Highly recommend.

I found The Last Story to be an enjoyable, simple rpg. It has some funny moments but still has a bit of the epic medieval rpg feel. The battle system and customization is fairly simple and the story didn't take too long to play through.

Saturday. We're slammed. Only two agents, and a lobby full of people- some sort of church revival service at a goddamn stadium up the hill. We work through the crowd, last lady standing comes up to the desk, smiles sweetly, "Could you tell me where I can find a church? I'd like to go tomorrow before I catch my flight."

Being sensitive to the intricacies of Midwestern Christianity I ask, "Is there a particular denomination you're looking for?"

"No, just early morning. I'm taking the shuttle to the airport, so walking distance."

"Well, there's XXX Cathedral, a few blocks down. They have an 8:00 AM mass."

"Oh, no, I mean like someplace that's kinda cool, like with a nice crowd on Sunday."

"Well, XXX Cathedral is the oldest in the city, it's kind of a traditional mass but the architecture is really some-" This isn't going anyplace, so I turn to the other agent, "Where do you go?" She's zero help- she goes to a megachurch on the other side of town.

At this point, she practically recoiled from the desk, "Are you catholic?"

"Um, well, lapsed. hahaha " She does not laugh, if anything, she is more upset. "But really, there's a number of churches down that way... a particular denomination might help? There's an evangelical congregation across the stre-"

"I just want a nice, young church." I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. I try to get a selection of churches in the 'Cathedral District' organized for her, but she's tuned me out and is now trying to corner the other agent who is answering the phone faster than I have ever seen her move

This is the abbreviated version. I'd suggest a nearby church, she would want details about the people who went to it, I'm doing my best to answer but there's always something wrong and she refuses to be more specific about her requirements and I'm about as far down "prodigal son lane" as you can get.

Part 2: Physical Comedy

Night Audit. Drunk wanders in gripping a broken charger and a dead iphone. "Do you have a charger I can borrow?" "No, sir, I do have one I can plug your phone in to. What room are you?" "468."

That room does not exist. "And your last name sir?" I find him, he's floors off and in the wrong building for 60's, but whatever. "Alright, sir, I'll put your information with the phone, or I can just give you a call when it's done charging?" "Okay" About face, and out the door.

Thirty seconds after I plug in the phone, he walks back in.

"Is it done charging?"

"No, sir, it just powered up." Dude's fucking wasted, barely standing upright with a hand on the desk. "It's no problem to contact you when it's don-"

"I'll just wait." Finds a chair, fiddles with the coffee table books. I get back to work. He's asleep within minutes. I figure that I'll finish the audit and give him back his phone, and go in the back to count. Half an hour later, I unplug the phone, go out front...

And there he is. Leg's spread, pants open, unzipped, hanging out in all his drunken glory. Crotch forward to the main door. I had to resist punching him awake. I managed to wake him up with a few terse, "Sir's"

Fiddles with himself a bit and cracks an eye at me. "Your phone, sir. Pull your pants up and go to your room."

He scoffs at me, takes the phone and kinda rolls over in his chair. "Sir, get up, button your pants, and go to your room."

Finally, he stands, thankfully his belt was still done so everything didn't just fall down. His boxers kinda fell back into place, too, so he wasn't just waving around. "I don't really like your tone."

"Sir, go to your room." At this point, I'm done, if he gives me any more lip I'm just calling the cops and having him punted. He staggers out of the lobby, I call the night security guy and ask him to keep an eye out. I don't even get off the phone when the drunk is back in the door.

"My key ain't working." "ID, sir." "This is bullshit, you're fucking treating me like I'm not paying for anything, I'm gonna complain." "ID, sir, or I cannot give you a new key and I cannot disclose room numbers. House policy." "Yeah, whatever, you're an asshole, you know?" "Yeah, I know. Pull up your pants, sir." Just fucking blinks at me, kinda tucks in his shirt- he's got no fucking clue. Finds his ID, I cut him a new key, tell him the right room number- he's still bitching at me the whole time.

I get the situation you were in but why did you tell them to call back after 8? Could you not have taken their reservation after the audit? I would have just transferred them to central reservations if they really had to make it right then (if you have that option)

Unfortunately we're independent and all reservations are done in-house. And with spa packages you need to book your appointments directly with the spa before your room reservation anyway.
I've only done the audit a handful of times back in April, so I'm still pretty rusty, so it takes me quite a bit longer. Of course everything goes wrong on my one shift as it is so I wasn't actually done until pretty late.

They weren't particularly interested in any other solutions anyway. :/ ah well.

Just did one where I had 14 balloons and hadn't been hit by a bird, was in the last ten feet and was hit by FOUR fucking birds in three steps. Completely undodgeable after the first one. Utter fucking bullshit minigame.

Spoilers tags not working! Stop reading if you don't want to be spoiled. Why are you in this topic if so, anyway :p

I hated it as a reasonably huge fan of her/XIII. (Personally! I'm ready for downvotes anyway)

This is my main issue with the ending: It made you feel like nothing that ever happened mattered. It ended on a very childish note, completely going to a different world. Saving Cocoon? Bah, nah. Saving Nova Chrysalia? Bah, nah. World still gets destroyed anyway, let's just go a new world that was never referenced directly in the story! Oh wait, it COULD be Earth! Looks like it!

It's a very mythos centered ending, with all that legend of the crystal snazz, but the problem is... What about the characters?

It screwed out all of the other characters' stories except for the XIII-2 ones, those two fellas and the girl had decent closure. You see, "they were all happy, the end" is not really a good ending. We want to know what happens to them, some proper closure after all that fiasco for 3 titles. Why have all the nonsense amount to nothing?

Did Snow and Serah get married? Wasn't this a focus for the first game? Can we not at least see this happen?

Lightning had wanted to previously take Serah on a holiday on her birthday, did it happen?

Is Hope still a kid? (I know he's not, but it's not shown)

Hope x Vanille, Hope x Lightning, or neither?

Sazh's got his kid, but what will they be doing in the New World?

What's the rest of the cast doing now? Do they even know each other anymore?

It seems absurd to throw the idea of the worlds Cocoon, Pulse, Valhalla, Nova Chrysalia all away for some grand Fabula Nova Crystallis scheme.

A hell lot of other questions could be raised; leaving it to your interpretation, which is not a good thing. Interpretation is only well done when it could have obvious answers, not completely open. Like Inception: Either the top stopped spinning and he is in the real world, or it doesn't and he's stuck in a dream but doesn't care anymore.

Basically you don't get to see them happy at all, beyond the pre-teleportation phase and I can say that more questions were raised than asked if you're actually emotionally invested in these characters. Leaving it open to interpretation is never a good thing if poorly executed(See Mass Effect 3). People wanted to know what happened to everyone in the world, not just the grand scheme. The details. It's like closing Star Wars without the final celebration on the Ewok moon, whatever it was called.

And anyway, Lumina being Lightning's younger self was really lame to me, I had predicted it way before launch since she has her eyes and Lumina means "Light" in latin. I had also read that her concept art had her originally dressed in white.I also saw that her hair in the concept art spiked on the right side in the same fashion of Lightning's. White red and pink = Lightning's palette. I was hoping to be surprised that she might be Bhunivelze, or Mwynn, something like that, but nope! Let's go with the obvious twist.

The story is rather bland for the most part. Snow, Noel and Caius were all brooding around for 500 years and all they needed was a good ass kicking from her to be okay. It feels.. uninspiring. I can understand Sazh's relief, because he has his son back. What did Noel have? He gave up even before he saw Yeul, he already had intention to destroy the oracle drive. Snow doesn't have Serah at all, all he needed was a good ass kicking. Wat. Same for Caius. It doesn't help that they let you choose the order you wanted to do it, because as a result they couldn't do a good narrative and the whole thing felt like a piece-meal thing.

Other inconsistencies like posters being in English language are in the game as well- weren't they using Pulsian/Cocoon alphabets before?

I did love the scene between Snow and Lightning after the fight, Hope and Lightning after Hope disappears, though. And the ending dungeon made me cry for real, because of how the 4 corridors displayed iconic moments of Lightning's journey with the appropriate soundtrack. It made me miss her from the very beginning I stepped into the first corridor.

I'm sort of late to this comment, but could you expand on the bit about the four corridors displaying moments of her journey? I noticed something was going on there, but I was so busy dodging enemies I didn't really stop and really look.

Looking out the corridors if you look out of the window you can see the greeny train area that Lightning started in(pulse vestige?) along with the soundtrack "Defiers of Fate", second one - Oerba along with Dust to Dust, third - Eden with "Blinded by Light", fourth - Valhalla with "Knight of the Goddess". Beautiful. It really caused my brain to cycle through those memories, thinking about the journey she has been through.

. My GF is playing on my iPad and I wasn't looking. She then couldn't control herself and started poking around.

So at this point you are 'weeks' into the relationship and she is already poking around? Nope. This girl is looking for shit to use against you, to lock you up. And anytime you call her on privacy she flips it and has YOU apologizing.... WTF.

She would complain if I looked in a general direction where there were other girls for more than a second or two. This caused me to literally walk looking at the floor, ceiling and sides while in public just to avoid upsetting her.

Also, when guests complain at 1:30 that their room hasn't been cleaned yet on a sold out day. Housekeeping works until five and vacant rooms have priority, buddy. You probably should have notified us that you were going to set up a meeting in your room for early afternoon and not just expect us to know.
Happened today. So irritating.

I don't think it would work as well with the show as it would with the books. Maybe with Dany or Jon, because they don't cross with other characters as much, but the scenes with multiple characters in them don't have one clear focus like the book chapters do. For example, Season 1

Also there are a lot of extra scenes with minor characters that you would have to leave out.